From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Pinard?= Subject: Git mirrors Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 01:22:26 -0400 Message-ID: <86obpgokml.fsf@mercure.progiciels-bpi.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWhYE-0000vw-2o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 01:22:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWhYC-0002ZD-8V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 01:22:29 -0400 Received: from 206-248-137-202.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.137.202]:59214 helo=mercure.progiciels-bpi.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWhYC-0002Z5-35 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 01:22:28 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, Org people. GitHub has a few niceties, like easy forking, pull requests and such. I notice https://github.com/jwiegley/org-mode in particular, which does not seem to be itself a fork of another GitHub repository, so I presume it forked directly from the official Git site for Org mode, which itself does not provide the same collaboration facilities as GitHub. The GitHub home page for John Wiegly says the org-mode project was updated two weeks ago, so I suspect it lags on the official Git site. A message on the mailing list speaks of this repository as the home for Org-X, so I also suspect this fork is not genuine, and not a way to get on GitHub the real, pure, Org mode. In the Org project, how commits are usually transmitted? I would not think maintainers are pulling our various repositories in theirs to then consider cherry picking, and it would require that we all set up Git servers. We could use GitHub as a way to avoid servers, but it feel strange using GitHub to communicate with Org maintainers while they do not themselves choose to keep an "official" mirror of Org on GitHub. Commits are going to be sent as email apply-able patches? Maybe this is all documented somewhere already, and I just did not read enough? Fran=C3=A7ois